Folklore

The most refracted colour when light passes through a prism, purple is at the far end of the visible colour spectrum, and is the hardest colour for the eye to discriminate The word actually derives from the name of the Tyrian purple dye manufactured from mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail. The dye came…

This morning I heard a magpie shout… Raucous and loud, chattering in rhythms of eight… And thought of my Mother… Her eyes narrowed as she looked about… Searching it out… She peered around for the source of troubles untold… But those that are about to unfold On her unsuspecting family… The Common Magpie, or Pica…